Plato surrounded by students in his Academy in Athens. Mosaic (detail) from the Villa of T. Siminius...
Month: September 2018
War emergencies, Madison argued, were tests to obey the Constitution, not ignore it. By Dr. Burton W....
The Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789, by Jean-Pierre Houël / Bibliothèque nationale de France, Wikimedia...
The economic system of the Middle Ages was founded on feudalism, supporting the overlords with the work...
Conflicts between the medieval Christian church, led by the Pope, and nations, ruled by kings, occurred throughout...
Lucius Aemilius Paullus, acting as imperator, breaking ties of serfdom / Photo by Marco Prins, Louvre Museum,...
Darius, relief from the Central Relief of the Northern Stairs of the Apadana, Persepolis When Darius became...
Senator John F. Kennedy speaks to supporters at Chicago Stadium four days before the 1960 election. AP...
The 1824 presidential election marked the final collapse of the Republican-Federalist political framework. For the first time...
1493 woodcut of Basle, from the Nuremberg Chronicle / Wikimedia Commons Population growth had exceeded the limits...
The Black Death was the largest demographic disaster in European history. By Dr. David Routt / 07.20.2008...
Scene from the Song Dynasty Illustrations of the Classic of Filial Piety, depicting a son kneeling before...
The top of the Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi / Creative Commons Hammurabi ruled through provincial...
His radical non-conformist and individualistic life-style and his writings were considered eccentric, unrealistic and unproductive in a...
It was the rising up of American taxpayers to refuse payment of a hated tax, and Washington’s...
They may look similar, but online trolls act differently. Daren Woodward/Shutterstock.com Some behaviors might help tell propaganda-spewing...
Outside forces have pushed the American people farther apart. Delpixel/Shutterstock.com Cybersecurity experts in the US knew about...
Reviewing the Crimean War and the role Florence Nightingale had in highlighting the plight of the soldiers....
Svjatoslav Svjatoslav’s lands were divided by his sons, who fought a war of succession. By Dr. Sanderson...
The village of Deir el-Medina in the West Bank of Luxor, Egypt. Anne Austin, Author provided Records...
A limestone relief depicting a nobleman, New Kingdom, Dynasty XIX or XX, c. 1295-1070 BCE. The figure...
An 1804 campaign poster urging support for the Jefferson-Clinton ticket “…no man will ever bring out of...
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams via Wikimedia Commons, Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, Adams by John Trumbull Both...
Wikimedia Commons The gradual intrusion of the Orthodox Church into Russian secular life and the state is...
St Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church / Photo by Philafrenzy, Wikimedia Commons The Eastern family of churches, today...
Today dynamically developing neo-pagan communities in Ural and Siberia supply a discursive frame for national identities, group...
Modesto Hernandez Leal, a worker-owner at Cooperativa Tierra y Libertad, gives a tour of the blueberry field....
Photography of Lascaux animal painting / Wikimedia Commons One of the most complex human mysteries involves how...
Photo by Arizona State University Hunting and gathering activities were the primary way for humans to feed...
NRMA Motoring and services / Wikimedia Commons Against the backdrop of the Cold War, Americans sought prosperity...